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Articles and Profiles of Famous Commercial Real Estate Developers and Projects

Commercial Real Estate Developers in the 19th Century

Commercial Real Estate Developers in the 20th Century

John Raskob and Al Smith, Real Estate Developers for the Empire State Building

Walt Disney, Visionary and Real Estate Developer for the New Theme Park Concept

Victor Gruen, Architect and Father of the Modern Shopping Mall

Junior Rockefeller and New York City's Rockefeller Center

Real Estate Developer.com showcases famous commercial developers and property managers from history who have demonstrated that entrepreneurial spirit, and along the way have altered the course of America. People like Walt Disney, who created a children's fantasy world known as Disneyland and imagineered the theme park concept used in amusement parks around the world today. Or the architect Victor Gruen, who created a new approach to clustering retail stores under one roof with large department stores to anchor the project . . . and in so doing gave birth to the modern shopping mall. Or Junior Rockefeller, who risked $100 million of his own money on the Rockefeller Center, which created thousands of jobs for desperate construction workers during the Depression and moved his family's core business out of the world's largest oil company and into real estate development. These remarkable stories and more are told in this website's commercial real estate developer articles.